Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs jobbies
that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.


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Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.


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I have a great paste table. It has tubular steel legs and an easy to
clean melamine top which has a dual 4' / 8' ruler printed on it so
measuring a strip of paper to the correct length is easy. Pull the stip
out to 4', lightly mark with a pencil the pull out again using the 8'
ruler to the correct length. The table has a built in cutting guide
where paper is fed under the guide and cut with a stanley knife. Since
the table top has grid markings, the paper is always cut square. I think
is called someting like a "pastemate" or similar. I have probably had it
twenty years or more and its still going strong. . I know it doesn't
help you much as I've not seen anything like it recently but believe me,
this table is the dogs dangly bits. I could put up some pics of it if it
helps.


Archie

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Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

My parents bought one not long ago, folding type similar to the cheapo
matchstick legs and hardboard wobbely top, as in the legs fold in and it
folds in half and locks closed to be carried by it's handle,

but it's got tubular steel legs, and the worktop is some hollow core board
with a shiney veneered type surface,

My mum bought it to use as a table at xmyth time, the only time of the year
she needs to use a table and hence loads it to capacity with jellies,
trifles, chocolates, biscuits, meats, pickles, cheese and pinapple hedgehogs
and all the other xmyth treats you want to nibble on during the run upto
xmyth day,

my dad has used it as a pasting table once of twice, but it's cleaned up to
like new,

unfortunately i'm no more use, as i dunno where they got it from, was one of
the big box diy sheds i guess, i'm sure she said it was about 20 quid, and
it's deffo sold as a pasting table,

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

Ya need one like this then
http://tinyurl.com/c29ctq

and try Brewers at http://www.brewers.co.uk

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Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

Ya need one like this then
http://tinyurl.com/c29ctq

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and try Brewers at http://www.brewers.co.uk

Cheers, they have a branch near our local SF.


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Archie wrote:
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Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.


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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk



I have a great paste table. It has tubular steel legs and an easy to
clean melamine top which has a dual 4' / 8' ruler printed on it so
measuring a strip of paper to the correct length is easy. Pull the
stip out to 4', lightly mark with a pencil the pull out again using
the 8' ruler to the correct length. The table has a built in cutting
guide where paper is fed under the guide and cut with a stanley
knife. Since the table top has grid markings, the paper is always cut
square. I think is called someting like a "pastemate" or similar. I
have probably had it twenty years or more and its still going strong.
. I know it doesn't help you much as I've not seen anything like it
recently but believe me, this table is the dogs dangly bits. I could
put up some pics of it if it helps.


Hi Archie

Sounds like just what I want. Would you mind posting a picky?


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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:24:01 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs jobbies
that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

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Consider a sheet of 18mm chipboard (6' x 2') with a pair of cheap folding
trestles (non-slip tops) from Lidl. Cover the chipboard with heavy duty
polythene stapled underneath. It wipes clean during use and the trestles
have other uses.

Cic.

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Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
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I've got a Harris Plastic Pasting Table that has legs that fit inside when
not in use and washes up nicely. Got mine in B&Q, it was £26 a couple of
years ago but I see they are now £39! For a picture see second hand item on
ebay item 110363447208.

There is also an additional Harris 'kit' for hanging a roll of paper from
the legs and a blade for cutting - very useful extra, apart from the fact
it's too narrow for lining paper which is about 20mm wider than ordinary
wallpaper. For clarification it's only the hanging kit that is too narrow,
table width is fine for lining paper!

Peter

On 19 Mar, 00:24, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs jobbies
that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

What are you doing with them? I was a professional paperhanger for a
number of years and my trusty (though now rusty in the hinges) plywood
and matchstick legged jobby is still going strong (it would be near
enough twenty years old).

Edward

and try Brewers athttp://www.brewers.co.uk

Cheers, they have a branch near our local SF.


I bought a tubular steel legged one (I think the make is 'Park'?)
from Brewers on special offer a few months ago - £20 instead of either
£30 or £40, can't remember. It is substantially better than the cheapo
B&Q ones, but the difference is not 'night & day'. On my sample the
legs were screwed in poorly to the Alu frame, and came out easily. I
have used longer screws at the moment and also have bought some long
4mm bolts & nyloc screws for when I get a round tuit.

The melamine surface is OK, but it's still only a sheet of hardboard
really.

The blurb on the table packaging talks about 'suitable for car boot
sales etc.'. They must have substantially lighter items they'd flog at
a car boot sale than I have!

If I were going down this route again I'd go Cicero's route of a pair
of trestles and a protected sheet of something. I was planning to do
this originally, except I was in Brewer's and the table was on
offer ...

HTH
J^n

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:24:01 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs jobbies
that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.


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Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs jobbies
that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

I know just what you mean, horrible device...

I have a pair of fold up cheap trestles, my intention for next time is
to find some suitable board which can be laid across those trestles.

Either (or maybe both) Lidl/Aldi do a rather useful looking one
occasionally. It had a solid W shaped metal (alloy?) frame and looked
very stable.

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Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

Ya need one like this then
http://tinyurl.com/c29ctq

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and try Brewers at http://www.brewers.co.uk

Cheers, they have a branch near our local SF.

Fleabay
330301856623

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On 19 Mar, 00:24, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs jobbies
that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

What are you doing with them? I was a professional paperhanger for a
number of years and my trusty (though now rusty in the hinges) plywood
and matchstick legged jobby is still going strong (it would be near
enough twenty years old).

Edward

You obviously didn't get paste all over it like the rest of us

Cicero wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:24:01 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.

=========================================
Consider a sheet of 18mm chipboard (6' x 2') with a pair of cheap
folding trestles (non-slip tops) from Lidl. Cover the chipboard with
heavy duty polythene stapled underneath. It wipes clean during use
and the trestles have other uses.

Good idea. but its getting it all in the van.


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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Hi Archie

Sounds like just what I want. Would you mind posting a picky?


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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk



Some pictures here.

http://92.236.100.215/PasteTable/index.html


Archie

On 19 Mar, 00:24, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

Aldi. 30 quid (plus or minus a fiver). White melamine(ish) top,
aluminium frame and an underframe that's diagonal aluminium tubes in a
"W" layout. Assembly is a bit more fiddly than others (not good for
dodgy street traders doing a runner from the peelers!) but the table
is far more stable than the usual folding plywood.

I don't wallpaper on it much, it's mostly for car boot sales. If
you've got a fair bit of china on there, you don't want something that
wobbles in the breeze.

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:43:55 GMT, wrote:

On 19 Mar,
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.


I use an old painted flush door (wipes clean nicely) resting on a pair of
trestles. Light and easy to store and use.

The trestles were formerly used by an undertaker whilst working with coffins.

A bier (not beer) ...

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Frank Erskine wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:43:55 GMT, wrote:

On 19 Mar,
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

Anyone recommend a decent wallpaper pasting table?

I've been through a few of the cheap & nasty plywood/matchstick legs
jobbies that fall apart & are impossible to keep clean.


I use an old painted flush door (wipes clean nicely) resting on a
pair of trestles. Light and easy to store and use.

The trestles were formerly used by an undertaker whilst working with
coffins.

A bier (not beer) ...

Appreciated.